Why Ethnic Studies Matter

In light of the Black Lives Matter movement, racial injustice protests make it clear why ethnic studies in our educational institutions make a difference.

“The battle at universities and colleges was not

about academic or administrative positions, control, or autonomy, but about the mechanisms that the academy utilizes to construct and implement knowledge of the world”. (Michael Soldatenko, 247)

About Liz

Liz Sanchez (she/her) is a senior at UCLA studying sociology with a focus on race, gender, and sexual identity. A non-traditional transfer student, Liz began her studies at Santa Monica College in her early thirties. She is an inspiring content creator, developing mini-documentaries around societal issues especially exploring in-between identities.

Overcast is a podcast discussing those in-between areas of life, the gray areas that sometimes are left out of the conversation.

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Sources for this episode of Overcast: 

DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Soldatenko, Michael. “12 Constructing Chicana and Chicano Studies 1993 UCLA Conscious Students of Color.” 

Latino Los Angeles: Transformations, Communities, and Activism, 2005.

Ron Espiritu TEDx Amherst College

https://dailybruin.com/2015/07/21/timeline-a-brief-history-of-activism-at-ucla-1969-present-2

https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-ucla-protests19-pictures-photogallery.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCqTEMgZUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN6dWuZv4Lc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7w_x1faTfw

https://losangeleno.com/features/la-protests-timeline-george-floyd/

https://dailybruin.com/2020/06/04/gallery-students-march-through-ucla-in-support-of-black-lives-matter-movement